Morelia Film Fest

OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 1st
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The Tin Drum

Die Blechtrommel

1979 | Germany | Color | 160 min.

Based on the novel of the same name by Günter Grass, the film tells the story of Oskar, the young son of a family in a rural area of Danzig, who refuses to grow up when he realizes all of the adults around him are miserable. On his third birthday he is given a tin drum, which he beats furiously to combat his feelings of desperation and anger at the rise of the Third Reich. After the Soviet invasion at the end of the war, Oskar decides it is time to grow up.

Direction: Schlöndorff, Volker

Script: Carrière, Jean-Claude | Grass, Günter | Schlöndorff, Volker | Seitz, Franz

Country: Germany

Production: Junkersdorf, Eberhard | Prescher, Hans | Seitz, Franz

Production Company: Argos Films | Artémis Productions | Bioskop Film | Film Polski Film Agency | Franz Seitz Filmproduktion | Ggb-14 | Hallelujah

Photography: Luther, Igor

Edition: Baron, Suzanne

Sound: Beil, Peter | Grundauer, Walter | Kellerhals, Peter

Music: Jarre, Maurice

Cast: Adorf, Mario | Aznavour, Charles | Bennent, David | Bennent, Heinz | Ferréol, Andréa | Olbrychski, Daniel | Thalbach, Katharina | Winkler, Angela

Year of participation at FICM:
2012

Films by the same director presented at FICM:

La mer à l’aube (2011) Young Törless (1966) Voyager (1991) El honor perdido de Katharina Blum (1975) The Ninth Day (2004) Baal (1970) Diplomacy (2013) Return to Montauk (2017)